Monday, September 21, 2015

Website of the Week

IMDB has been around now for twenty-five years and has grown from a small and limited hobby project to be "the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, t.v. and celebrity content."

IMDB offers a free, searchable database of more than 100 million data items including two million movies, television and entertainment programs, current and historic, from around the world as well as information on four million cast and crew members.

Getting Started with RSS

Getting Started
The Southwestern College Library now offers syndicated news feeds of some of its web content in the RSS format. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, allows anyone with Internet access to keep up to date automatically with what is happening at the Southwestern College Library.

Using a news reader application, you can subscribe to any SWCL feed by following the subscription directions of the particular reader, or by clicking on the icon in the address box of RSS compatible web browsers like Firefox or Safari. Some of the more popular readers are Digg, Feedly, Newsblur and Newsvibe. News reader applications and browsers differ in how you may subscribe to a feed, so please consult your reader's help section if you are having problems.